 | Robert Adair - 1840 - 332 pagina’s
...looked over the varied fields of creation, he could call " the delightful scenery all his own. His were the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent...filial confidence inspired, Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say, ' My father made them all.* " These, however, were not the only... | |
 | Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe - 1840 - 476 pagina’s
...enumerates the enjoyment of natural scenery as among the covenanted privileges of the believer, I ' He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature ; and...in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his o\vn. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers j his to enjoy With a... | |
 | 1847 - 662 pagina’s
...his harm, Can wind around him, but he casts it off With as much ease as Samson his green withes. He looks abroad into the varied field Of Nature, and...filial confidence inspired, Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say, ' My Father made them all !' Are they not his by a peculiar right,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 456 pagina’s
...Samson his green withes. He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor perbaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his...filial confidence inspired, Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say,—' My Father made them all!' Are they not his by a peculiar right,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1876 - 86 pagina’s
...supplies ; 50 Heir, in apposition to me (49). Cowper, in 'The Task, Winter Morning,' says :— ' He looks abroad into the varied field Of Nature ; and...sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own.' Cf. also 1 Cor. iii. 22. 51 miser is from the Lat. adj. miser, wretched, denoting the character and... | |
 | Samuel Manning - 1880 - 260 pagina’s
...at his post,) And leaves the disencumbered spirit free To reassume a staid simplicity. ROCK POOLS. " His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel,...filial confidence inspired, Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say, ' My Father made them all ! ' " a delight it is to scramble among... | |
 | Alfred Macleod - 1877 - 238 pagina’s
...around him, but he casts it off With as much ease as Sampson his green withes ; He looks abroad unto the varied field Of Nature, and, though poor perhaps...filial confidence inspired. Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say, My Father made them all ! Are they not his by a peculiar right,... | |
 | Frederick Edward Hulme - 1877 - 270 pagina’s
...who, like Cowper, can pour out his heart in such a strain as the following lines embody : — " He looks abroad into the varied field Of Nature, and,...and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. His t' enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - 1877 - 564 pagina’s
...That hellish foes, confed'rate for his harm, . *" With as much ease as Samson his green withes. He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and...and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. His t' enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspir'd, r * Can lift... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - 1877 - 296 pagina’s
...heavenly freedom he says, in words well known, ' He looks abroad into the varied field Of Nature, and .... Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are...filial confidence inspired, Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say, " My Father made them all."' And so throughout this whole passage... | |
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He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and, though poor perhaps compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. His to... 
